If you believe Iran “harassed” US ships, you have forgotten USS Vincennes

Presscue
January 8, 2008

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The US navy claimed yesterday that Iranian fast boats harassed them in the Straits of Hormuz. On July 3, 1988, USS Vinceness shot down Iran Air Flight 655 (IR655) killing 290 innocent civilian from six nations including 66 children.

The US navy initially claimed that they mistakenly identified the passenger liner as an Iranian fighter, and denied that they were not inside Iranian territorial waters.

But the official ICAO investigation found that the US Navy guided missile cruiser’s attempts to contact Iran Air 655 were sent on the wrong frequency and addressed to a non-existent "Iranian F-14".

US government’s own investigations found that both IR655 and the USS Vincennes were inside Iranian territorial waters at the time of the attack.

Instead of admitting its mistake and issuing an apology, the US Government the people responsible for the atrocity were awarded medals for "heroic achievement".

"The U.S. has a long history of sailing into Iranian waters and otherwise provoking Iran," Journalist Reese Erlich , the author the news book The Iran Agenda: The Real Story of U.S. Policy and the Middle East Crisis said. "Remember on July 3, 1988, the USS Vincennes shot down an unarmed Iranian passenger plane and the U.S. tried to cover up the incident. In that context, the U.S. version of events must be carefully examined. It seems highly unlikely that Iran planned to blow up U.S. naval ships and precipitate a major incident or even war. If the U.S. attempts to make propaganda points based on the incident, it will reflect a new truculence coming out of Washington."

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  1. UNITEDWEREFALLING on January 9th, 2008

    And the Band played on, here we go again while the Sheeple stand behind Bushazi and agree that those Ragheads should be eliminated. And plus we need the oil.

  2. WinstonNephron on January 9th, 2008

    Very interesting that this incident occurs within a day of an NSA Declassification Report which reveals that the U.S. did indeed fake the Gulf of Tonkin attack in order to escalate the Vietnam War.

    But then, George ‘Iraq is buying uranium in Africa’ W. Bush would never consider doing such a thing….now would he?

  3. Bob Vine on January 9th, 2008

    You need to read “Killing Hope” by William Blum; and “Overthrow” by I can’t remember whom. The U.S. has been screwing around in other nation’s affairs since they overthrew Queen Lili (I can’t remember how to spell her name) of Hawaii. Our policies are brutal but at home we are just helping the poor downtrodden people of the world.

  4. WinstonNephron on January 9th, 2008

    Thanks, Bob Vine. Both ‘Killing Hope’ by William Blum and ‘Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq’ by Stephen Kinzer, are available from various online sources. We should all check those out.

  5. Rabbit on January 9th, 2008

    It is really very simple.

    If the USA claims something, you should just believe the opposite.

    I always do and don’t get surprised very often as a result.

  6. Shadrach on January 10th, 2008

    After the Ruby ridge a Waco Murders by the Gov. Nothing really surprises me any more. The problem throughout history has been locating and revealing the truth to the masses. Theses monters are so comfortable in there power that they even have revealed the truth, by printing it on our greenbacks for us to find if we have the strength to look. The Truth Truely is stranger than fiction. Revelation Anyone ? Jesus Christ will defeat them some day, but until then faith and caution are in order? Don’t love the lie because it is easier to believe.

  7. jojo on January 10th, 2008

    Quote from Ron Paul’s news letter
    “administration has behaved as if there are only two choices in foreign policy – sending money or sending bombs. Our founding fathers knew a better way – to talk with our neighbors, do honest business with them, cultivate friendship, allow travel and open communication. We should neither initiate violence, nor take sides”
    Sorry Paul but take a sneak peek going back over 200 years–Even Canada was invade. Then–United Fruit Growers controlled USA military agenda,now the oil barons.First settlers were convicts–France Spain England emptied all their jails–distant to America. To make them progate–all their street prostitutes were rounded up and one way ticket to America.-Talk with Neighbours–Yaah Ronnie–just like South America!

  8. PenSpin on January 10th, 2008

    I am pretty greatful to come to the knownledge of the truth before being swept out the door like a pile of dust. The more I read and the more i hear on the “news” the more evident this all becomes, but this is not only the extent of it, these so called elitest assume that they will have so much power indeed they already do, though i do not think they have weighted the cost. This world subversion is not only for the lives of man but for the souls of the same, and yes revelation, Truth is stranger than fiction. There is an enemy of the souls of man who is orchestrating all of this and the world thought that it has known what terror is, this enemy does not care about the agenda of man he has his own agenda and it will soon become all to clear. But there is a Deliverer His Name is
    JESUS CHRIST!

  9. Vierotchka on January 10th, 2008

    Let’s play at “spot the international waters in the Strait of Hormuz”. Map at http://tinyurl.com/pnh2l

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  11. S. Wolf Britain on January 11th, 2008

    I feel like I’m repeating myself too often, but what else can I do in response to a piece like this, and yet another of far too many examples of the mass-murder carried out by the U.S. government?! It is truly disgusting the level of that mass-murder, which is now (well?) over ten million innocent people in the past one hundred years or so if you add up all of the known numbers of innocent civilians killed by the U.S. government in all of the various actions and wars in that time period!! And all of those numbers are no doubt conservative, just as the most widely accepted numbers of innocent civilian deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan are!! Then add to that the fact that those numbers don’t include the mass numbers of innocent people who died thereafter from the effects of the radiation from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and don’t include the mass numbers of innocent people who are yet to die from the radiation of the depleted uranium that has been spread all over the Balkans, Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, and no doubt Palestine as well!! And we’re supposed to worship this government and not speak the truth about its atrocities, but it’s okay to speak about the mass murder of approximately the same number of innocent people by Hitler and the Third Reich?! Just because they did in only four years what it took the U.S. government to do in one hundred years, doesn’t mitigate the U.S. government’s staggering guilt one iota!! And they want to do it more and more!! Hell, they are already murdering all of us with the depleted uranium radiation, and they want to drop and spread more radiation all over the world!! Dear God, please save the entire world from these psychopaths!!

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